On nonparametric maximum likelihood for a class of stochastic inverse problems

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 76, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1225-1237

  Chafaï, Djalil ^a,b   Loubes, Jean Michel ^c  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE MATHÉMATIQUES DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

Author keywords

EM algorithm; Inverse problems; Longitudinal data; Maximum likelihood; Mixtures of probability measures; Nonlinear models; Repeated measurements data

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747892468     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spl.2005.12.019     Document Type: Article

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